Articles by Francis D. Nichol

Why Overlook 75 Million Readers?

May 1939

Some time ago I spent a few days in the library of a large theological seminary, and had the privilege of going back into the stacks and browsing at leisure over the wide collection. The librarians were pardonably…

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A Course in Christian Evidences Needed--2

November 1940

We make bold, therefore, to suggest that there be given in each college a course in Christian evidences, or apologetics, as it is often called, and that this course be required of all students. As we view it, this course…

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A Course in Christian Evidences Needed-1

October 1940

There are five propositions which we wish to set forth as a basis for our remarks: 

1. The Seventh-day Adventist Church is not a static body. On the contrary, we are militant proselyters…

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Restudying the Doctrines—No. 2

March 1940

Architects inform us that it is often possible to beautify, strengthen, and enlarge, yes, even modernize, in a sense, a stately, venerable structure without disturbing a single supporting pillar or re­moving one stone…

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Restudying the Doctrines without Destroying the Foundations

February 1940

Through all past centuries the clergy have been the custodians of learning. Often they were the only ones who pos­sessed an education. This was as true of Protestantism as it was of Catholicism. And when Protestantism…

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Dead Men Tell No Tales

May 1944

Ordinarily Seventh-day Adventists take no notice of the periodic attacks of traducers of the faith. We have a great work to do—a high task to perform, from which we are unwilling to be diverted. Occa­sionally, however, an attack…

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Blended Ministry for Body and Soul

December 1945

You have come to the end of a long and*ardu­ous course of study. You have filled your minds with innumerable facts and figures. And if you are like unto us who have attended school before you, you have sought to…

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Floodlighting the Word of Prophecy

November 1945

One of the claims most frequently made by all of us as we stand on the rostrum in an evangelistic effort is that we are students of the prophecies. We laud the prophecies. We declare that we are the preachers of…

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Dedicating Infants in Church

December 1946

Dedicating Infants in Church

Question: Is it considered orthodox to bless in­fants in our Seventh-day Adventist churches?

The answer turns upon the meaning given to the word bless.…

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The Heresy of Silence: The Need of Teaching Denominational History

February 1945

I come to you with something that is troubling my mind, for I can think of no group better qualified to give concrete help. Personally, I have always had the general impression in my mind that we were tied in to the advent movement of the…

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Seventh-day Adventists and Nudism

July 1946

The December, 1945, issue of a nudist journal,. Sunshine & Health, contained an article en­titled: "A Seventh-day Adventist Nudist," by Harry A. Loring. The writer declared that he was a theological student who had been attending…

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Scope of Our Medical Work-3

October 1949

The genius of the Advent Movement is against concentration of men and resources in one spot, it matters not whether the men be preachers, teachers, publishers, or plain church members. The genius of this great…

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Genius of Our Medical Work—II

September 1949

Now what is the reason that our health work is not in a healthier state? Why do we not have a larger percentage of our doctors in North America within the frame­work of the movement ? Why do we not have more denominational…

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The Genius and Scope of Our Medical Work—No. 1

August 1949

Protestant churches through the cen­turies have generally made one or the other of two very different approaches to the subject of bodily health. The majority have viewed the matter of medical care for the sick…

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Why Seventh-day Adventists Conduct a Medical Program

May 1956

This year, as we all know, marks the Fiftieth Anni­versary of the purchase of Loma Linda, where immedi­ately was started a school of nursing—the College of Medi­cal Evangelists in embryo. My picture of Loma Linda…

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Features-Is the Doctrine of an Earthly Heaven Adequate Today? Preach the Power of God.

January 1954

Let me be frank from the first paragraph. I belong to that religious group who believe that the only genuine and lasting solution of the tragedy of our sorry world is to be found in connection with the literal, personal ad vent of Jesus Christ.…

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THE LARGER OUTLOOK: The Heavenly Pilgrimage (Continued)

June 1950

Now, admirable and important as is crusading, there are cautions we must observe. We must guard against a mistaken view, which ever resides in the human heart, that the worth of a crusade is to be measured simply by the number of those brought…

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THE LARGER OUTLOOK: The Heavenly Pilgrimage

April 1950

Within the last five years we have had two impressive centenary celebrations to memorialize the passing of one hundred years since the beginning of Christ's ministry in the most holy place in 1844 and the beginning of well-defined Seventh-day…

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Forward and Upward

January 1930

Motives — and Destiny

By Meade Macguire

A man's eternal destiny will not be decided simply by what he believes, for thousands believe the Scriptures, but do not obey their teachings. Nor will it be decided by his outward…

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Music and the Message

March 1930

Music and the Message

Who can compute the mystic power of music? Who can measure the influence it exerts for weal or woe? It is woven into the very warp and woof of this sinful world. Indeed, most of the demoralizing things of the…

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Forward and Upward

June 1930

"Take Heed Unto Yourselves"

By Carlyle B. Haynes

My mind carries me back to a ministerial institute of nineteen cen­turies ago. This was not the first min­isterial institute ever held, for I look…

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Thoughts of Worthwhile Men

December 1930

Thoughts of Worthwhile Men

By F.D. Nichol

All of us occasionally have expe­rienced the rare thrill of listening to an address in which the speaker pre­sented some very vivid and stimulating thoughts…

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The Miraculous Birth of Christ

February 1932

The assertion was recently hurled at me that Christians worship an illegiti­mate child. Answered by reference to Matthew 1:20, the question was then asked, "Why was it right for the Holy Spirit to do what it was not right for man to do?"…

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Modernism's Inadequacy Is Our Opportunity

February 1936

It is common knowledge that Modernism is in the ascendancy, that a very great majority of the clergy and of the theological schools are to an increasing degree contaminated with Liberalistic ideas. But it is not so widely…

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Extraordinary Men Extraordinary Times

December 1938

God wants men who think great thoughts, dream great dreams, and see great visions in relation to the kingdom of God and the finishing of His work. I have pondered much in recent years this problem of completing…

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Sunday Laws and Commercialized Amusement*

March 1933

I find myself in the very unusual position of being the only pastor in Hyattsville who is on the repeal side of the Sunday law question. At the same time I am the pastor of the only church in this community whose membership…

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Discussion with a Sunday Advocate

June 1933

[Editor's Note—We are sharing with our readers some choice bits of dialectic correspond­ence between F. D. Nichol, associate editor of the Review, and the president of one of the prominent Fundamentalist Bible colleges,…

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